Re: [open-vm-tools-devel] Gentoo integration - mail encoding

[Elias P. <ma...@el...>]

It seems Sourceforge has some problems detecting my mail encoding.
To see the bug at the Gentoo bugtracker, go to http://bugs.gentoo.org and=20
enter the number 192377 (one nine two three seven seven).

Regards, Elias P.

On Saturday 15 September 2007 05:22:43 Elias Probst wrote:
> Hi,
>
> we're currently developing an open-vm-tools ebuild for inclusion into
> Gentoo Linux.
> The development progress can be tracked here:
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D192377
>
> Our current blockers are:
> - it doesn't build without X (missing libXrandr and probably libXtst too),
> although --disable-x and --without-multimon was given as argument
> to ./configure
> - the xferlogs tool which is mentioned in the packaging guide isn't
> included in the sources - what happened to this tool?
> - the file 'guestlib.so' isn't built - couldn't figure out why yet..
>
> If anybody knows how to solve some of this points we'd be glad!
>
> We're also doing some additional patching, maybe some of this changes sou=
nd
> useful to the upstream developers for changing/including them.
> - disabling the toolbox when X is not used (I'd wish to do this using
> a ./configure argument like --disable-toolbox)
> - modification of the VmwareDnD path, as /tmp is rather stupid if the user
> uses scripts which clean up /tmp on startup or similar. We're using
> now /var/tmp/vmware/dnd. Would be nice as ./configure argument
> like --dnd-dir=3D/var/foobar.
> - Gentoo specific initscript for the vmware-guestd (dummy replacement
> coming soon...)
>
> Regards, Elias P.


=2D-=20
A really nice number:
"09:F9:11:02:9D:74:E3:5B:D8:41:56:C5:63:56:88:C0"